12 Ways To Capture The Colors Of Fall

Fall is in nearing full force in the Northern Hemisphere. That means a beautiful display of reds, oranges and yellows is now sweeping across the globe and it’s time to grab your camera to captur... See full article

Away from Iceland for the Summer

10 Essential Photoshop Skills Everyone Should Know 10 Essential Photoshop Skills Everyone Should Know is now available in the iTunes store! This is one of our best-selling eBooks, and I think you̵... See full article

The Dubbo Drive In

Why in Dubbo? I am sure you were wondering why I was in Dubbo. But, I can replace that wonder with a more intense wonder: why did Neal Stephenson take this photo of me during a Breaking and Entering o... See full article

Colored Lanterns

Extended Interview from Australian TV Here’s the longer cut of the interview… actually, I think this is uncut! Daily Photo – Chinese Lanterns Whenever I walk around taking photos, I ... See full article

Park and East 42nd in New York City

One Billion Means My friend Pedram Keyani convinced me to share this… FB contacted me for a little interview before they announced they had one-billion users. I guess they plucked out this quote... See full article

4 Reasons To Consider Moving Back To Analog SLRs

I realize this post might be consider heresy on a digital photography website and yet, I type about moving away from all digital and incorporating some old-fashioned analog (film) cameras in your phot... See full article

Burning Man Photos and New Workshop Schedule

Upcoming Photography Workshops I really don’t do these very often, but it was getting confusing so we made a page that showed what, when, and where! It’s over on the Photography Workshops ... See full article

Downtown Sydney

SmugMug Coupon for Signing Up Many of you know that I use SmugMug (see my SmugMug Review) for managing my online portfolio and selling prints. They have new packages available there, and the code R... See full article

The Sydney Opera House

Paris Workshop News We heard that many people are having trouble affording the Paris event, and we’re not in the business of making people upset. So, I worked with the team to figure something o... See full article

Sunken Ghost Ship in the Desert

Interview on Australian TV I was on Channel 7 a few days ago in Australia – here is the clip Backup Camera for Burning Man My main camera I use nowadays is the Nikon D800, and I was a bit afraid... See full article

Midnight In Paris Join Me at a French Chteau!

Registration Today! This will be a great a event in Paris — join Miss Aniela and me at a French chateau for two amazing days of learning and art! Registration opens soon. Check the Midnight in P... See full article

Humans Evolve a New Form of Visual Literacy Through Images

Intro to the article This originally appeared in Facebook Stories. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to put them below. I always enjoy reading your thoughts on these matters. Humans Evo... See full article

An Endless Desert

Free Newsletter – Sign Up for the new News first about our European event! First Name: Email: That’s me on the right, looking somewhat confused and exasperated after a few weeks in the fie... See full article

How To Frame A Spectacular, But Boring, Sunset

Have you ever been at the beach and were witness to a gorgeous sunset? The colors, the calm wind and not to mention you were likely miles away from work? Possibly on holiday? In that near perfect mome... See full article

The Polar Opposite

Photos from the Sydney PhotoWalk Here is a very nice collection over on the Demotix website (thank you Richard Milnes) — you can get an idea of what it was like! Thanks again everyone for coming... See full article

A Beach for your Thoughts

The Cloud Whisperer Someone called me the Cloud Whisperer on a recent PhotoWalk and I thought it was kind of funny. I do watch the clouds a lot and analyze them like Kvoth thinks about the wind…... See full article

The Stars Above Grand Central Station

Your Worst Tripod Story? I have a few… the one below is not one of the better ones, btw.. but what are yours? Daily Photo – The Stars Above Grand Central Station I took this photo a few mo... See full article

Why Flatbooks will make the world a better place

New Flatbooks Available! Big World Little Lens New from Justin Balog – Big World Little Lens – The Complete Guide to iPhone Photography will teach you everything you need to know about tak... See full article

PhotoWalk in Sydney!

See you in Australia Thanks to a last-minute change-of-plans, it turns out that I am headed on a secret adventure in Australia! I’d like to start it off with a PhotoWalk in Sydney! Here’s ... See full article

The Painted Mountains of Death Valley

Interview with Astrum People Part 2 Yesterday was Part 1 and here is Part 2! Daily Photo – The Painted Mountains of Death Valley I woke up on the final morning to go find this special area of De... See full article

The Exploding Wave

The sound of waves When you fall asleep, do you prefer the sound of waves, the sound of rain, the sound of a bubbling brook, or something else entirely? Daily Photo – The Exploding Wave Oahu had... See full article

Inception: New York City

Wanna Carve my Face in a Pumpkin? I never thought I would write a title like that until I saw this! You can find out more Pumpkin Carving Tips on the page where I found it… (and thanks to the un... See full article

A Fun Day At Pinterest

Pinteresting! A few days ago I went to Pinterest to give a talk about The Future of Photography (and various other things), and I hung around after the event to snap a few photos. You can see me there... See full article